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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 14, 2024, 3:32 PM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 14, 2024, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2024, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 39 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
641 WHUS42 KMFL 142032 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 332 PM EST Wed Feb 14 2024 FLZ168-172-173-151000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0012.240215T0000Z-240216T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 332 PM EST Wed Feb 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM EST THIS EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From 7 PM EST this evening through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
3 follow-up statements
209 WHUS42 KMFL 150715 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 215 AM EST Thu Feb 15 2024 FLZ172-173-160000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-240216T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County- 215 AM EST Thu Feb 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ168-160000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-240216T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 215 AM EST Thu Feb 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
874 WHUS42 KMFL 152201 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 501 PM EST Thu Feb 15 2024 FLZ172-173-160600- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-240217T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County- 501 PM EST Thu Feb 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ168-160600- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-240217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 501 PM EST Thu Feb 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
759 WHUS42 KMFL 160551 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1251 AM EST Fri Feb 16 2024 FLZ172-173-170000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-240217T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County- 1251 AM EST Fri Feb 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ168-170000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-240217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1251 AM EST Fri Feb 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.